Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85) and index

"Works by Homer": pages 81-82

Biography of Homer -- Thematic analysis of the Iliad -- Critical views on the Iliad. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on ekphrasis and Helen of Troy ; John Ruskin on the gods ; Milman Parry on the epithet ; C.M. Bowra on Homer as poet of a post-heroic age ; Bruno Snell on Homeric man ; Adam Parry on heroic language and the wrath of Achilleus ; Dieter Lohmann on ring composition and the chariot race ; James M. Redfield on dogs in the Iliad ; Jasper Griffin on the gods as audience ; Oliver Taplin on the shield of Achilleus ; Ruth Scodel on Homer's use of myth ; Martin Mueller on the simile ; Laura M. Slatkin on Thetis -- Thematic analysis of the Odyssey -- Critical views on the Odyssey. Samuel Butler on the authority of women ; Erich Auerbach on Homer's perspective ; W.B. Stanford on the ambiguity of the Odysseus figure ; William S. Anderson on utopias and oblivion ; Cedric H. Whitman on Greek art and description in the Iliad and Odyssey ; Anne Amory on the psychology of Odysseus and Penelope ; Hugh Lloyd-Jones on the Odyssey as moral fable ; Bernard Fenik on Zeus' justice and Poseidon's revenge ; Norman Austin on landscapes of order and disorder ; Paolo Vivante on the poetics of time ; Rainer Friedrich on lion similes in the Iliad and Odyssey ; John Peradotto on no-man and everyman ; Andrew Ford on poetry and belatedness

Describes the mystique surrounding Homer and whether or not he was one person, and provides thematic analysis and critical views on the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey."

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